While it is true that old American voters tend to support what most consider to be detrimental conservative policy, I’m not sure that’s guaranteed to be true fo

While it is true that old American voters tend to support what most consider to be detrimental conservative policy, I’m not sure that’s guaranteed to be true forever. That could just be a generational thing? Social conservatism tends to be popular with the older people but social conservatism isn’t really the driving force of current conservative politics as, say, ethnic nationalism. What I’m referring to just natural self interested voting. Namely protecting housing prices and expanding healthcare for the elderly. For all countries, democratic or not, it’s going to suck simply because old people are expensive, and often have problems which simply require great deals of time. We will not be able to do a great job on this across the globe, so we’ll hit simultaneous humanitarian failings and economic struggles to try anyway. When the population pyramid flips, the economy doesn’t grow. When the economy doesn’t grow, its the young people who hurt the most.